AI Engineer

At Syngenta we believe every employee has a role to play in safely feeding the world and taking care of our planet. To support that challenge we are currently seeking an AI Engineer. As an AI Engineer at Syngenta you will design and build goaldriven AI agents that enable our cropgenetics teams to query analyze and act on structured scientific and farm data via natural-language instructions.

Duties:

• Architect and orchestrate agentic processes using frameworks like LangGraph: modeling thoughts actions observations tool chaining MCP protocol and memory/state.
• Build integrations with data tools (SQL stores domain-specific repositories) to be called by agents.
• Prepare fine-tune and evaluate transformer models on both language and sequence datasets.
• Design data preparation pipelines that include cleaning structuring deduplication and annotation best practices.
• Implement AI/ML pipelines: fine-tuning metric evaluation drift detection iterative improvement secure deployment.
• Ensure production readiness with testing CI/CD monitoring and cloud-native or serverless deployment architectures.
• Collaborate with scientists to convert domain requirements into agent behaviorsexperiment planning report generation and decision workflows.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors Degree and 5 years of software development experience and/or machine learning engineering/research.
• Strong foundation in AI/ML and deep learning especially transformer architectures and training methods.
• Hands-on experience fine-tuning transformer models with attention to evaluation metrics and costaware resource use.
• Experience designing or extending agentic systems including planning workflows and tool integration.
• Proficiency in Python React TypeScript SQL APIs and agent-tool integrations.
• Experience with cloud services/serverless architectures for deploying models and orchestrating back-end pipelines.
• Good knowledge of engineering best practices such as automated testing version control reproducible environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Clear communicatorcan produce readable code thorough documentation and coherent design rationale.

Preferred:

• . or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a relevant STEM field.
• Relevant peer-reviewed publications or open-source contributions.
• Front-end experience with React and TypeScript.
• Familiarity with biological sequence modeling and evaluation metrics.

Additional Information :

What We Offer: 

• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion promotes professional development and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs. 
• Full Benefit Package (Medical Dental & Vision) that starts your first day.  
• 401k plan with company match Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution. 
• Paid Vacation Paid Holidays Maternity and Paternity Leave Education Assistance Wellness Programs Corporate Discounts among other benefits. 

Syngenta has been ranked as atop employerby Science Journal. 
Learn more about ourteamand ourmission here: is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment hiring training promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation marital or veteran status disability or any other legally protected status. 

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